A compendium of radio sitcoms and retrospectives celebrating the legendary writing duo.
Ray Galton and Alan Simpson were Britain's best-loved and most successful comedy writing partners. Together, they created two of the greatest sitcoms of all time, Hancock's Half Hour and Steptoe And Son. This compilation brings together some of...
Those world famous rag and bone men - Albert and Harold Steptoe are back in this original and entertaining quiz book based on the award winning BBC TV sitcom. The show's' creators and writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson have penned an exclusive 'Foreword' to sit alongside the six hundred...
Ray Galton and Alan Simpson are two of the most influential and celebrated television scriptwriters of our time. Praised for inventing the sitcom, their own seminal creations are still standing the test of time with modern audiences - Hancock's Half Hour and Steptoe & Son are two of the most...
Over 100 episodes of Hancock's Half Hour were produced and broadcast, first on BBC radio from 1954 and then on TV from 1956. Receiving critical acclaim at the time, and making a star of the cantankerous Tony Hancock and roguish Sid James, Hancock's Half Hour made history as the grumpy...
Many people consider Tony Hancock to be the finest comic actor of them all. November 2004 sees the 50th anniversary of his best-loved work, Hancock's Half Hour, which began as a radio series, penned by the writers Galton and Simpson.
Two years later, the first of 58 TV instalments had...
In 1962, a new sitcom single-handedly brought the gritty realism of kitchen-sink drama into the arena of comedy. Deliberately casting actors instead of professional comedians, Steptoe And Son offered a brand-new kind of humour, trading on, and becoming an icon of, the political unrest and post-war disillusionment of Sixties Britain....
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Here, in paperback for the first time, are five of the classic scripts that, during the seven years 1954-1961, made Tony Hancock Britain's most hilarious and best-loved comedian.
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